HiSilicon Kirin 955 – an 8-core chipset that was announced on April 9, 2016, and is manufactured using a 16-nanometer process technology. It has 4 cores Cortex-A72 at 2500 MHz and 4 cores Cortex-A53 at 1800 MHz.
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarks
AnTuTu 8
The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
HiSilicon Kirin 955
117953
CPU |
51935 |
GPU |
7316 |
Memory |
27012 |
UX |
31813 |
Total score |
117953 |
GeekBench 5
The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Image compression |
72.65 Mpixels/s |
Face detection |
10.7 images/s |
Speech recognition |
19.25 words/s |
Machine learning |
16.35 images/s |
Camera shooting |
8.98 images/s |
HTML 5 |
1.36 Mnodes/s |
SQLite |
366.8 Krows/s |
Specifications
Detailed specifications of the Kirin 955 SoC with ARM Mali-T880 MP4 graphics
Architecture |
4x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A72 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53 |
Cores |
8 |
Frequency |
2500 MHz |
Instruction set |
ARMv8-A |
Process |
16 nanometers |
TDP |
5 W |
GPU name |
ARM Mali-T880 MP4 |
Architecture |
Midgard |
GPU frequency |
900 MHz |
Execution units |
4 |
Shading units |
64 |
FLOPS |
122 Gigaflops |
Vulkan version |
1.0 |
OpenCL version |
1.2 |
DirectX version |
11.2 |
Memory type |
LPDDR4 |
Bus |
2x 32 Bit |
Max bandwidth |
25.6 Gbit/s |
Max size |
4 GB |
Neural processor (NPU) |
No |
Storage type |
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0 |
Max display resolution |
1920 x 1080 |
Max camera resolution |
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP |
Video capture |
4K at 30FPS |
Video playback |
4K at 30FPS |
Video codecs |
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 |
Audio codecs |
AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC |
4G support |
LTE Cat. 6 |
5G support |
No |
Download speed |
Up to 300 Mbps |
Upload speed |
Up to 50 Mbps |
Wi-Fi |
5 |
Bluetooth |
4.2 |
Navigation |
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Announced |
April 2016 |
Class |
Flagship |
Comparison with competitors